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ἀνταπο-δίδωμι ,
A.give back, repay, tender in repayment or requital, Batr.186; ἀ. τὸ ὅμοιον, τὸἴσον, Hdt.1.18, Th.1.43; “χάριν” Pherecr. 2D.; “τὴν ἴσην” Arist.Rh.1379b7; “ἀ. τροφεῖα” Lys.6.49; “ἀρετήν” Th. 4.19; “ὕβριν” Plu.2.825c; τὰ αὐτὰ ἀ. react in the same way, Pl.Ti. 79e; of counter-arguments, Id.Prm.128d: abs., pay back, Th.3.40, Arist.Rh.1367a21.
2. take vengeance, LXX De.32.35, al., Ep.Rom.12.19.
II. assign as a balance, “ἐναντίαν γένεσιν” Pl.Phd. 71e.
2. make convertible, “τὴν μεταφορὰν τὴν ἐκ τοῦ ἀνάλογον” Arist. Rh.1407a15:—Pass., Demetr.Eloc.79.
b. Gramm., make to correspond, of correlatives (e.g. τοιοῦτος, οἷος), in Pass., A.D.Conj.254.19, Synt.54.5, al.; so of μέν . . δέ, Arist.Rh.1407a23, Demetr.Eloc.53, cf. Hermog.Id.1.4, al.
3. intr., answer to, correspond with, “εἰ μὴ ἀνταποδιδοίη τὰ ἕτερα τοῖς ἑτέροις” Pl.Phd.72a, cf. b; οὐκ ἀνταποδίδωσι τὸ ὅμοιον there is no similar correspondent, Arist.Mete.347b32, cf. IA 707b16, Ps.-Alex.Aphr.inSE192.14.
4. give back words, exchange 'tu quoque's', Pl Phdr.236c.
III. deliver in turn, “τὸ σύνθημα” X.Cyr.3.3.58 (Pass.); explain in turn, Pl.Ti.87c.
IV. give back a sound, of an echo, Plu.Sull.19; of troops, “κραυγὴν ἀ.” Id.Tim. 27.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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